Women And War In Antiquity
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Women and War in Antiquity
Author | : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris,Alison Keith |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421417622 |
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Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed. The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer’s epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca’s stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.
Women at War in the Classical World
Author | : Paul Chrystal |
Publsiher | : Grub Street Publishers |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781473856615 |
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A look at how warfare affected—and was affected by—women in ancient times. Although the conduct of war was generally monopolized by men in the Greco-Roman world, there were plenty of exceptions, with women directly involved in its direction and even as combatants—Artemisia, Olympias, Cleopatra, and Agrippina the Elder being famous examples. And both Greeks and Romans encountered women among their barbarian enemies, such as Tomyris, Boudicca, and Zenobia. More commonly, of course, women were directly affected as noncombatant victims of rape and enslavement as spoils of war, and this makes up an important strand of the author’s discussion. The portrayal of female warriors and goddesses in classical mythology and literature, and the use of war to justify gender roles and hierarchies, are also considered. Overall, this is a landmark survey of women’s role in, and experience of, war in the Classical world.
Women and War in Antiquity
Author | : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris,Alison Keith |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421417622 |
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Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed. The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer’s epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca’s stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.
Women and War
Author | : Bernard A. Cook |
Publsiher | : Abc-clio |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Women and war |
ISBN | : 9781851097708 |
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Provides comprehensive treatment of the role of women in war. This encyclopedia presents the work of leading scholars from all over the world to give coverage of the role of women in wars throughout history. It offers a single source for information on the scope of women's role in war, and war's effects on them.
War Women and Children in Ancient Rome Routledge Revivals
Author | : John K. Evans |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317810292 |
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J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.
Women on War
Author | : Daniela Gioseffi |
Publsiher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1558614095 |
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An international anthology of women's writings from antiquity to the present.
Hell Hath No Fury
Author | : Rosalind Miles,Robin Cross |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008-02-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780307346377 |
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An engaging collection that uncovers injustices in history and overturns misconceptions about the role of women in war When you think of war, you think of men, right? Not so fast. In Hell Hath No Fury, Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross prove that although many of their stories have been erased or forgotten, women have played an integral role in wars throughout history. In witty and compelling biographical essays categorized and alphabetized for easy reference, Miles and Cross introduce us to war leaders (Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Margaret Thatcher); combatants (Molly Pitcher, Lily Litvak, Tammy Duckworth); spies (Belle Boyd, Virginia Hall, Noor Inayat Khan); reporters and propagandists (Martha Gellhorn, Tokyo Rose, Anna Politkov- skaya); and more. These are women who have taken action and who challenge our perceived notions of womanhood. Some will be familiar to readers, but most will not, though their deeds during wartime were every bit as important as their male contemporaries’ more heralded contributions.
A Companion to Women s Military History
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 677 |
Release | : 2012-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004206823 |
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This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present: eight chapters review the existing literature, an extended picture essay visually documents women’s military work, and eight chapters illustrate more restricted topics.